澳大新語 • 2022 UMAGAZINE 25 37 專題探討 • TOPIC INSIGHT research in mainland China, the United States, and Singapore for more than 20 years. At UM, he served as head of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature before becoming dean of FAH. According to Prof Xu, the Department of Chinese Language and Literature is one of the university’s key departments, with a strong faculty team and high academic standards. ‘Diversity is the driving force behind academic development and each academic department should try to find its speciality,’ says Prof Xu. ‘In our department, we advocate a global perspective and aim to explore the phenomenon of Chinese language and literature within the larger framework of human language and literature, in order to tell the stories of China and Macao in a way that people around the world can understand.’ Strong Cross-cultural Research Capacity Linguistics scholars at UM have achieved many outstanding results in language and cultural studies. From 2017 to 2021, they collectively published over 250 papers in academic journals, such as Studies of the Chinese Language, Contemporary Linguistics, World Englishes, Lingua, and Journal of Pragmatics. In addition, South China Quarterly, a comprehensive academic journal in the humanities and social sciences edited and published by UM, was ranked third in sharing rate among all academic journals published by Chinese higher education institutions in 2020. According to Prof Xu, these achievements are testament to UM’s distinctive features and clear advantages over its counterparts in China in areas such as comparative linguistics, applied linguistics, and translation studies. Multiple Career Paths for Language Professionals Over the past decade, FAH has produced over 3,300 graduates who have gone on to pursue careers in areas such as education, translation, business, and administration worldwide, or to pursue further studies at prestigious universities, such as the University of Chicago, Boston University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Hong Kong. Graduates of UM’s Chinese and Portuguese programmes are not only hired by local schools as language teachers — some of them have found job opportunities in the more than 50 universities with Portuguese language programmes in mainland China. ‘With the development of our society and economy, more and more employers, including banks, trading companies, tech companies, and government departments, feel the need to hire professionals who are fluent in Chinese, Portuguese, and English. Many of our graduates are employed by these companies every year,’ says Prof Xu. He adds that the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the Department of English, the Department of Portuguese, and the Centre for Japanese Studies are committed to producing language professionals for China and Macao. ‘Students with language skills can always find opportunities to showcase their talent, no matter whether they are in Macao, in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area or other parts of the world,’ says Prof Xu. Ana Nunes教授 Prof Ana Nunes 掃二維碼 觀看訪談片段 Scan the QR code to watch the interview Mercer, S., Hockly, N., Stobart, G., & Galés, N. L. (2019). 《全球 技能：培養運籌帷幄的21世紀公民》。牛津大學出版社英語教學專 家組，牛津大學出版社。 Mercer, S., Hockly, N., Stobart, G., & Galés, N. L. (2019). Global skills: Creating empowered 21st century citizens. OUP English Language Teaching Expert Panel, Oxford University Press. 1
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